Improvement in organ-stop actions



G. R. ELLIS Organ-Stop Action.

No. 203,901. Patented May 21,1878

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GEORGE R. ELLIS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORGAN-STOP ACTIONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,901, dated May 21, 1878 application filed February 28, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. ELLIS, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful lmprovementin Stop-Actions as applied to Pipe and Reed Organs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

y invention relates to an improvement on the devices shown in Wm. H. Olarks patent, granted January 29, 1878, and numbered 199,795, for an improvement in organ-stop action.

The object of my invention is to provide a vel method of operating a lever whereby The other end, E, is secured to the frame A. This arrangement, however, of the spring may be varied, and different forms of springs used, the object being to obtain an end-pressthe lever to move forward under the hook O of the vertical standard 0, where it shall be retained until released, as shown in Fig. 3, and the stop is thus held open, or in operation, by any of the ordinary connections with a sticker or tracker rod in reed or pipe organs. In order to release the lever B and withdraw the stop from operation, an end-pressure is applied to the end B of the lever by the knuckles or fingers of the operator. The lever is as shown in Fig. 1. A spring maybe applied between the lever and frame, for the purpose of forcing the lever up when released from the hook 0 but in practice the sticker or tracker rod operating mechanism (not shown) holds it up.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The lever B, with a fulcrum-pin slot, G, at one end, and a slot, 0 near the other end, in combination with the stationary stud or hook O and spring E, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as shown and described.

2. In an organ-stop action, the lever B, with an adjustment-slot, G, operating on afulcrumpin, thereby allowing an end motion to the lever, and permitting the lever to be moved forward when depressed, and retained in position by a stationary stop or hook standard, 0, and released by an end-pressure on the lever, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE R. ELLIS.

its fastening. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing the lever forced down and held by its fastenmg.

A represents the lever-frame, and B the le- Ver. The lever may be of the form and conthe fulcrum-pin D; and immediately back of the front elevated part B is another slot, 0 The rear end of the lever rests on the fulcrumcushion Othat.is, between the lever and the frame A-with the pin D projecting upward in said slot G.

Near the front end of the lever-frame is rigidly secured a vertical standard, 0, having a hook, and the part under the hook 0 may be provided with a cushion, 0 This vertical hook-standard 0 projects through the slot 0 Witnesses: of the lever B, as shown. At therearend of the E. O. FRINK, lever B the end E of the springE is attached. S. O. FRINK. 

